From 69cba0fdcf854e9ea567654c0b38e91b21226c88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:18:21 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] allow .mrconfig to be a symlink

abs_path would canonicalise the symlink and mr would try to from the
directory of the file it pointed to, avoid that counterintive behavior
---
 mr | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mr b/mr
index aa15728..0f80fc8 100755
--- a/mr
+++ b/mr
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ foreach my $topdir (sort keys %config) {
 
 		if (defined $directory &&
 		    $dir !~ /^\Q$directory\E\//) {
-			print "mr $action: $dir skipped per -d parameter\n" if $verbose;
+			print "mr $action: $dir skipped per -d parameter ($directory)\n" if $verbose;
 			push @skipped, $dir;
 			next;
 		}
@@ -212,16 +212,17 @@ sub loadconfig {
 		$dir="";
 	}
 	else {
-		$f=abs_path($f);
-
-		if ($loaded{$f}) {
+		# $f might be a symlink
+		my $absf=abs_path($f);
+		if ($loaded{$absf}) {
 			return;
 		}
-		$loaded{$f}=1;
+		$loaded{$absf}=1;
 
 		print "mr: loading config $f\n" if $verbose;
 		open($in, "<", $f) || die "mr: open $f: $!\n";
 		($dir)=$f=~/^(.*\/)[^\/]+$/;
+		$dir=abs_path($dir)."/";
 
 		# copy in defaults from first parent
 		my $parent=$dir;
-- 
2.39.5